Yutang Lin (1895–1976)
Autore di Importanza di vivere
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Though he was never considered to be a serious original thinker or a leading writer in his native China, Lin Yu-t'ang's role as an essayist and popularizer of things Chinese in the West is worthy of attention. He was a native of Changchow in Amoy, son of a Presbyterian minister, and mostra altro third-generation Christian. He was brought up in a strict household and prepared for the ministry, and after middle school he was sent to the Protestant College of Amoy. In 1911 he entered the famous St. John's University in Shanghai, and it was during his time there that he became disillusioned with the choice of a religious career and renounced Christianity. After graduation (with a rather weak academic record), Lin Yu-t'ang became a professor of English at Tsinghua University because his grounding in foreign languages was much stronger than in classical Chinese. In 1919 he decided to pursue further study in the United States, where he spent one year at Harvard University and then went on to France where he worked for the YMCA. He moved to Germany for a term, and at last in 1923 earned a Ph.D. in Leipzig in the field of archaic Chinese phonology. Lin Yu-t'ang then returned home and tried out various teaching posts, and in 1927 became secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Wuhan government. But politics was not to his liking, and he resigned in the following year. In 1932 he founded the Analects Fortnightly, a magazine of wit and satire that proved to be an instant popular success. Two years later he began another periodical, This Human World, which contained short essays. Unfortunately, his satire angered intellectuals on both the Left and the Right, and this was the beginning of his lifelong friction with Chinese literary and academic circles. In 1936, feeling hostility at home but an increased demand for his writings in the West, Lin Yu-t'ang went to New York City and remained there until 1943, when he went back home to lecture briefly and again became embroiled in controversy. However, in the United States, his essays and ideas were greeted with great enthusiasm. Early in 1954 he was appointed chancellor of the new Chinese University in Singapore, but, because of a disagreement with the trustees on policy, he and his staff left early in 1955 before the university opened its doors. Not long after this, in New York, he and his wife publicly announced their reconversion to Christianity. In addition to his many books of essays, Lin Yu-t'ang published a novel, Moment in Peking, a saga about a Chinese family spanning the years 1900--38. He also published a number of translations of classical Chinese works, the best of which is perhaps Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life, the moving autobiographical account of a happy marriage marred by parental disapproval and the tragic early death of the wife. Lin Yu-t'ang's writings are marked by an appreciation of both Eastern and Western culture, and their sparkling, idiomatic English style has endeared him to thousands of Western readers. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Library of Congress
Opere di Yutang Lin
La saggezza dell'India: il fiore della letteratura indiana dagli inni vedici al Surangama Sutra (1942) 42 copie
Imperial Peking: Seven centuries of China; with an essay on the art of China by Peter C.Swann (1961) 16 copie
支那のユーモア 2 copie
Peking, Teil 1 und 2 2 copie
Egy múló pillanat regény 2 copie
The Wisdom of China 2 copie
Mi patria y mi pueblo 2 copie
Upper and lower volumes of the vision of the Wise - China and the World (Lin Yutang anthology)(Chinese Edition) (2000) 2 copie
朱門 1 copia
Communion of Tang with Jin Dynasties (Translated by Lin Yutang) (English and Chinese Edition) (2015) 1 copia
كيف يحيا الإنسان: أهمية الحياة 1 copia
Una hoja en la tormenta 1 copia
La oportunidad de Eurídice 1 copia
生活的藝術 1 copia
京華煙雲 1 copia
行素集 1 copia
吾國與吾民 1 copia
Imperial Peking 1 copia
Un momento en Pekín 1 copia
La sabiduría de Lao Tsé 1 copia
武則天 1 copia
生活的藝術 1 copia
支那のユーモア 1 copia
Lin YuTang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition: Harvest Moon on West Lake (Bilingual literature) (2009) 1 copia
風聲鶴唳 1 copia
紅牡丹 1 copia
信仰之旅 1 copia
信仰之旅 1 copia
Uma Fôlha na Tempestade 1 copia
China 1 copia
Un genio alegre 1 copia
El nombre secreto 1 copia
Lin Yutang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Selected Poems and Prose of Su Tungpo (Lin Yutang Chine (2008) 1 copia
Life when the case: the latest revision of hardcover commemorative Collector's Edition!(Chinese Edition) (2014) 1 copia
Peace is in the heart 1 copia
Un Genio Alegre 1 copia
Famous Chinese Stories 1 copia
Memoirs Of An Octogenarian 1 copia
Lin YuTang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition / Dream Shadows (Lin Yutang Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Selected,… (2008) 1 copia
Fortællinger fra det gamle Kina 1 copia
How I celebrated the New Year 1 copia
A Brief Introduction to Setting up a Buddhist Altar — Autore — 1 copia
勵志人生 1 copia
The Dog-Meat General 1 copia
京華煙雲 1 copia
Lai bo ying 賴伯英 1 copia
Universally Responding 1 copia
Su Chuan (Lin Yutang English Collections) - Lin Yutang English original writings. included many precious old… (2009) 1 copia
Punainen portti 1 copia
Boundless 1 copia
The First Steps of Vajrayana 1 copia
ENTRE LAGRIMAS Y RISAS 1 copia
Falevél a viharban regény 1 copia
Diamond Wisdom 1 copia
Lin Yutang 1 copia
A Sabedoria da China e da India 1 copia
Momento em Pekim - 2 Volumes 1 copia
Sabiduría Hidú 1 copia
Sabiduría China 1 copia
從異教徒到基督徒 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Epic Tale of Brotherhood, Bravery and Rebellion in Imperial China (0014) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 959 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 5: Community Responsibility (1969) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Lin, Yutang
- Nome legale
- Lin, Yutang
林語堂 - Data di nascita
- 1895-10-10
- Data di morte
- 1976-03-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- at his home in Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- China
- Luogo di nascita
- Banzi, China
- Luogo di residenza
- Banzi, China (birth)
Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan - Istruzione
- St. John's University - Shanghai
Harvard University
University of Leipzig - Attività lavorative
- Professor of English Literature
translator
inventor
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 147
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 2,995
- Popolarità
- #8,519
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 47
- ISBN
- 227
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 7